WORLD AND CREATION

“Consciousness is a fundamental thing,it is the fundamental thing in existence ;It is the energy ,the motion,the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it – not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself . For instance when conscienceness in movement ,or rather a certain stress of movement ,forgets itself in the action ,it becomes an apparently “unconscious”energy ; when it forgets itself in the form it becomes the electron,the atom,the material object ..In reality it is still consciousness that works in the energy and determines the form and the evolution of form .When it wants to liberate itself ,slowly ,evolutionally ,out of matter,but still in the form,it emerges as life ,as animal,as man and it can go on evolving itself still further out of its involution and become some thing more than mere man.”

-Sri Aurobindo

Letters,Sri aurbindo Mandir Annual .No 6,August 1947,p.50